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Diana Farid
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Vaden Health Center
BioDiana Farid MD, MPH is a physician, filmmaker, an award-winning author and poet. She is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Faculty in the Medical Humanities and Arts Program at Stanford's School of Medicine. After earning a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies at UC Berkeley, MD at Northwestern University, and Family Medicine specialty training at UCLA, she was awarded a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Child and Family Health Leadership Fellowship, during which she earned a Masters in Public Health focused on community health and storytelling.
Since then, Diana has continued to care for patients while creating and championing the vital role of story and the arts in medicine and health. After serving as a physician consultant for television shows like Grey's Anatomy, she produced the feature length documentary film, American Rhythms, exploring the positive impact of music on elementary school student health. At Stanford, she has integrated medicine and the mediums of film, creative writing, and poetry into student and community experiences while leading and presenting arts programs across Stanford. As Assistant Director of Stanford School of Medicine’s Program in Bioethics and Film, she produced film screenings and panel discussions exploring films with vital bioethical implications. She established the first Stanford Film and Medicine Interest group for medical students to study film as a health promotion tool and has mentored medical student film projects. She produced the Stanford Medicine and the Muse, Medical Humanities and the Arts' 2018 Frankenstein@200 year-long cross-campus film screening and panel series.
Her poetry has been featured in gallery exhibits, storytelling events, anthologies, and journals. Her multi-award-winning picture book, When You Breathe (Abrams), melds respiratory science with poetry. Her novel written in verse, Wave (Abrams), celebrating medicine, music and poetry and noted as “Raw and powerful…Rich, layered and heart-rending” — Kirkus, has won numerous awards including the Cybils Award for Novel in Verse, was named a Best Middle Grade Book of 2022 by the School Library Journal, and is on state education board reading lists across the United States. Her latest picture book, The Light of Home (Scholastic) is a lyrical story about painting and belonging. Her debut board book Already All the Love (Little Bee Books) is a poem for presence. She is an Editorial Board Member for poetry for the medical humanities journal, The Pharos. In 2025, she created a first-of-its-kind Women in Medicine participatory poem for the Stanford School of Medicine. In 2026, she is co-teaching Peds 129: Little Libraries: Improving Children’s Literacy through Service and Storytelling. For 2025-2026, she is one of the inaugural artsCatalyst Fellows of the Stanford Arts Institute. -
Michele Kastelein
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Vaden Health Center
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAt Stanford University School of Medicine, one of our major goals is to translate research insights into practical advances that enhance and prolong life. We foster a two-way transfer of knowledge between research laboratories and patient-care settings. Our faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars and students engage in interdisciplinary efforts to turn this knowledge into therapies that treat or prevent disease.
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Yeuen Kim
Clinical Associate Professor, Medicine - Vaden Health Center
BioYeuen Kim MD MAS is an internal medicine physician with expertise in population health, medical humanities educational interventions, and working with vulnerable populations in urban settings. She trained at Brown University's Program in Liberal Medical Education and completed residency/chief residency at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, CA. She has worked with vulnerable populations in ambulatory and mobile settings as a primary care attending and medical outreach physician, as well as completing a Masters' and fellowship in clinical research at UCSF's Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology & SFGH DGIM, where she evaluated electronic referrals to subspecialty clinics from safety settings (Kim, Chen et al, JGIM 2009.) She worked with the SF and Santa Clara County public health departments to help reduce mortality and improve COVID19 and mpox mitigation, especially at congregate residential facilities through better ventilation, public-private collaboration, and addressing determinants of health for essential workers. Since 2013, she has facilitated art gallery-based workshops for physicians and learners to improve observation and communication skills. She co-leads narrative medicine and oncology workshops for students, residents (Edwards, Kim et al, BMJ Educ 2022) and faculty as a clinical associate professor in Primary care and population health.
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Dana Nirel Romalis
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Vaden Health Center
BioDana Romalis has been a board certified Family Medicine physician since 2004. She enjoys taking care of families throughout all phases of life. Special interests include teaching, collaborative care, preventative medicine, behavioral change, and reproductive and adolescent health. Since 2017, she has been a primary care provider at the Life Connections Health Center in San Jose, caring for Cisco employees and their families.
She was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, where she also attended medical school at the University of British Columbia. As an undergraduate at Brandeis University, she double majored in Neuroscience and Psychology, and was captain of the women’s varsity diving team. She did her residency at Montefiore Medical Center’s Residency Program of Social Medicine in the Bronx, NY.
Prior to joining Stanford’s primary care division in 2017, she worked for 10 years as a primary care physician on Santa Clara Valley Medical Center's interdisciplinary Homeless Healthcare Program. She is committed to comprehensive and compassionate care for all.
In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and 2 college-aged children, reading, hiking, and volunteering in her community.
